[Anja Light <anjalight@bigpond.com>]

Hi Jude,
I can't wait to see the book - sounds like fantastic stuff - well done  
Jude!
I would love to do some kind of book launch with this in our region -  
say in about 4 weeks time? Maybe we could do it at our local library -  
or at the school where we have the garden established, the Burdekin  
Christian College.
Any plans to travel north Jude?!
We had a great backyard gardeners meeting last Sat. and are further  
ahead in getting the LSN running. Maria MacDonald was also interested  
in starting a group in the Bowen area.
I will be in Japan from 18 to 28th - but will try to be in contact with  
you about this again when I return.
Warm regards, Anja Light  (Burdekin LSN)


On 15/08/2007, at 8:39 PM, Seed Savers Network wrote:

> New Book on School Food Gardens Published
>
> 15 August 2007
> Want to establish a food garden in a school? Here is the book for you.
>
> Do you think children's eating habits are deteriorating? That there is
> a crisis in health due to poor diet? That the general level of
> gardening skills is degenerating?
>
> To address these problems there is a growing movement to establish food
> gardens in schools. To service that interest, Seed Savers has just
> published a ninety page book, Seed to Seed Food Gardens in Schools.
>
> The book is written by Jude Fanton, co-founder of Seed Savers, and Jo
> Immig, an environmental scientist and co-ordinator of the National
> Toxics Network who has written several books including the "The Toxic
> Playground" and "Safer Solutions" which detail how to avoid of
> hazardous chemicals and better safeguard children's health from
> environmental pollution.
>
> The production of the book was supported by the Mercy Foundation in
> Sydney and grew out of the establishment of a food garden at Byron Bay
> Public School. Photos of that process illustrate the book, along with
> amusing black and white drawings throughout.
>
> Chapters include planning the garden, planting, maintaining, harvesting
> and saving seeds. It is written in a clear and informative style with
> many ideas for lessons and activities. Resources listed include books,
> organisations and websites that cover a wide range of aspects of
> gardening.
>
> Extract from the Introduction:
>
> Gardening can be a magical experience for children. They love to help
> out and delight at ripening berries, blooming sunflowers, and gathering
> up lemons for lemonade.
> Most adults can recall happy times spent in the garden when young,
> learning how to plant seeds and stake tomatoes, an experience often
> shared with our parents and grand parents. Many of us remember the
> exquisite taste of homegrown food, in contrast to the bland taste of
> many supermarket fruits and vegetables today.
> Unfortunately, with the trend towards shrinking backyards and
> increasingly busy lives, domestic food gardens have become "a thing of
> the past". The opportunity to pass on important gardening skills from
> generation to generation and to share in the joys of homegrown food is
> being lost.
> For children without a vegetable patch, or even a fruit tree, there's
> little opportunity to observe how food grows. They may only ever see
> fruit and vegetables at the supermarket where they come neatly
> packaged, bear little resemblance to the whole plant and may be sold
> outside the normal growing season.
> Schools are excellent places for creating food gardens as they often
> have more space than homes. As "outside classrooms", school food
> gardens can be used for a range of activities across all curricula.
> They provide a great opportunity for physical exercise and hands-on,
> experiential learning.
> Seed to Seed Food Gardens in Schools hopes to inspire a rebirth of food
> gardens so children will be able to enjoy gardening and growing their
> own food and their own seed for the next season.
>
> The 90 page A4 shaped book is available from our home page free as a
> downloadable coloured pdf and as a black and white book for $20 post
> paid within Australia from Seed Savers. Contact info@seedsavers.net, or
> phone 02 6685 7560, 9am to 5pm
>
>
> This article can be found on the Web at:
>
> http://seedsavers.communityfoods.com.au//news/1187173717_19875.jsp
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